Spring 2014 – School Holidays What’s On SA & WA

What’s On SA

Do you know what night creatures live in your backyard?

When the sun goes down there are many different animals just waking up!

Come to the South Australian Museum and explore the night creatures found in your backyard … and uncover what they are. How do they see? What happens to the daytime animals? See the night in a whole new light.

Meet the animals at the Adelaide Zoo

The Children’s Zoo is a place to for kids to stop and make friends with some incredible animals … there’s over 120 animals to be found within the Children’s Zoo!

Why not come in and feel the soft fur of a kangaroo, listen to the chatter of guinea pigs, smell the earthy aroma of goats, feed the frisky fallow deer, see the spectacular colours of our chickens and chat with the cheeky corellas?

It’s like Hollywood in Adelaide!

The Kids Camera Action! School Holiday Workshop program is back this spring!

This series of 4 to 5 day interactive workshops are ideal for children interested in filmmaking and are held in three locations (Mitcham, Goodwood and Bowden). A team of working film and television professionals leads these fun and engaging workshops.

The workshops are spilt by age group and involve games, character development, story building exercises and film production.

What’s on WA

It’s all about science @ Scitech

These school holidays are your last chance to see the Carnival of Science exhibition and uncover the science behind your favourite sideshow attractions, before it closes the curtain. There will also be an epic new planetarium show, Titans of the Ice Age, which will explore a time when humans fought for survival alongside majestic woolly beasts.

If you’re into experiments, there will be workshops-a-plenty on in the CSIRO Lab – from analysing crime scene evidence to being a palaeontologist. On 6 October, Science Nights are on again with a Carnival of Science Spectacular for kids 6-12 years old.

This is a great chance for parents to bring the kids to Scitech after work hours for a great time, some learning and pizza.

For more information, including costs and how to book, visit scitech.org.au.

Dive into books at Boffins

Boffins Bookshop, located between Perth’s Hay & Murray Street malls, is running a series of events in the school holidays, to celebrate their range of children’s books.

From In the Lion, to Maisy and Where’s Wally, there’s always something to entertain kids at this shop.

Whiteman Park

There are always plenty of fun school holiday activities for the kids at Whiteman Park. Activities for the school holidays include Tracking down the Treasure, Play with Clay pottery classes and Fettler’s Folklore, to name a few!

You can book for most of the activities by calling 92009 6000.

And don’t forget the joy of the Children’s Forest – a place where children can come to learn about the importance and beauty of trees and the natural environment and where they can come and watch ‘their’ forest grow and flourish as they do.

More school holiday fun @ Museums WA

WA’s museums are a great place for families to explore each and every school holidays. Across Perth, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Albany and other museums, exhibitions and activities to delight, excite and educate small fry are on offer!

Visit museum.wa.gov.au and head to What’s On for the full program available at a museum near you these spring school holidays.

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre – ‘Imagine, Design, Build, Perform’

Your kids will love this introduction to puppetry workshop, which runs for two days.

Kids will explore story ideas for their puppet performance in small groups, before designing and building their very own puppet.

At the end of the workshop, family and friends are invited to watch the budding puppeteers perform their very own show with their carefully crafted puppets.